A graduate recruitment expert has told employers that they could retain levels of employment for those with higher education qualifications if they maximise the effectiveness of their spending when looking for new staff. Anne Benson, director of the careers centre at the University of East Anglia, said that, to save cutting graduate recruitment levels during the recession, employers should review their current methods and identify any ways of reducing costs. Employers could benefit from the current excess of graduates looking for jobs by planning recruitment campaigns to manage responses more easily and to make sure that a swift but effective process is in place for eliminating unsuitable candidates early on. Ms Benson is also the chair of GradEast, which organises an Online Recruitment Fair for graduates and employers in East Anglia. Running from June 8th-19th, the fair could also be a cheap way for employers to reach out to those looking for graduate jobs at the moment. A recent report by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills called on employers to be more ambitious when offering positions to graduates to help address the "mismatch" between available work and the skills which university leavers hold.
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